Re: [PATCH 3/3] mergetool-lib: add diffuse as merge and diff tool

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 2, 2009, 18:06 UTC
Message-ID: <7vhc17exrk.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090402104252.GA29223@gmail.com>

David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> writes:

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> git-send-email (probably gmail, too) won't let me send
> one patch in a series with a different "From:" header,
> so maybe you should resend this patch so that you can get the
> proper authorship recognition?  I've attached the original
> patch file I sent in case you want to just grab it and
> send-email it back out for the purposes of getting the right
> authorship in there (actually, Junio, please advise...,
> I'm not exactly sure what you'd prefer)

The way you marked your 3/3 with a From: line in the body of the message is the preferred way to say "David forwards a patch from Sebastian", and our patch application tool knows about it.

If you wanted to preserve the original author date, you could have also added a Date: line in-body ("David forwards a patch from Sebastian, who created it at this date in this timezone"). You can find an earlier example in:

    http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/115289